Kate Adamick

Kate Adamick is a food systems consultant and co-founder of Cook for America®, which provides concentrated and comprehensive culinary training to school food service personnel. Through both Cook for America® and her consulting firm, Food Systems Solutions® LLC, Adamick has helped hundreds of schools throughout the United States convert their cafeterias into scratch-cooking operations by transforming "school lunch ladies" into skilled and passionate Lunch Teachers™.

Adamick, an attorney and classically trained professional chef, specializes in integrating operational changes, site-based programming, and public-private partnerships to create healthful institutional meal programs and to support local and sustainable agriculture systems. She has worked with school districts, hospitals, retirement communities, and foundations across the United States.

Adamick is a frequent speaker on institutional food systems, sustainable agriculture, childhood obesity issues, and the economics of school food reform.